AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1918, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RESTRICTING PRICES. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Melbourne, Feb. 22. A regulation prohibits agreement, among traders to increase the prices of suppliesQUEENSLAND POLITICS. Brisbane, Feb. 12. The Nationalists' policy includes an electivfl Upper House, the discouragement of State industries, and an early opportunity for the electors to express their views on 0 o'clock closing. SOLDIERS AND DRINK. Hobart, Feb. 22. At the Senate Committee inquiry into the sale of intoxicants to soldier* the State Commandant said that of the whole of the men enlisted in Tasmania only 111)1 had failed to go to the iront. Drink had not to an" extent interfered ed with the efficiency of the \asmaniat troops. He favored a wet canteen futile sale of drink of reduced strengtr. and the introduction of a« Anti-Siiout-ing Act. I SOLE SURVIVOR OF WRECK. Brisbane, Feb- 22. j The search steamer has discovered McKenzie, the sole survivor of the schooner Orete, which was wrecked in the cyclone oil January 19. When the Orete capsized, the captain and his son and two seamen in the cabin were nil drowned. McKenzie and another seaman were washed off. The other man was drowned, but McKenzie drifted to an island and spent nineteen days with little food, making a raft of kerosene cases. He attempted to reach another island, but lost the raft and swam back. He spent ten more dayg on the island and built another raft and reached a settler's House on Marble Island, almost exhausted from starvation.